Food & Water Archives

Letter From The Farm | Rasputin The Ram & The Ethics Of Lamb For Easter Dinner

By Matthew Hayes, ARC2020

What is the value of a life? What is the consequence of a death? Is there a right way to kill? What is the best way to live?

Agriculture’s Greatest Myth

By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News

It is agribusiness that most aggressively alleges that all other forms of agriculture are inadequate. This Malthusian spectre is a good story, it’s had a tremendous run, but it’s just not true.

How a Seattle Neighborhood Confronted Food Insecurity in the Pandemic

By Lornet Turnbull, YES! magazine

Over the past year, more than 20 food supply organizations have contributed in one form or another to providing hot meals to residents through the community center.

Reclaiming the Desert

By Randi Kaeufer, Medium.com

Because there is no other option and no better deal for the natural capital, soil, biodiversity and climate. Our task is to accelerate this transition and to avoid doing even more damage.

A Soil Scientist’s Perspective – Carbon Farming, CO2 Certification & Carbon Sequestration in Soil

By Andrea Beste, ARC2020

What is needed are a high humus content and an active soil life. However, it cannot be the task of agriculture to “capture” greenhouse gases caused by industrial production and permanently store them in soils.

Cultivating Food Security with Mini-Gardens

By Rachel Klucewicz, Transition US

CH’s Mini-Garden project was the perfect solution to reaching those with limited lawn-space and reducing in-person contact during the pandemic.

Some further thoughts on organic fertility

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

I’m going to continue my theme from my last post about organic fertility in future farming, picking up on a few of the very interesting comments that people made in response to it.

Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3

By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism

But for the merchants who were the primary promoters, financiers and often warriors on the English side, it was an economic war — if they had read von Clausewitz, they might have said that their war was business conducted by other means.

The real value of water

By Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Even when we value embedded water as an economic good, we owe it to ourselves and future generations to treat water in a way that recognizes it first and foremost as invaluable.

Grace Olmsteads Uprooted Idaho, and my own

By Russell Arben Fox, In media res

Grace Olmstead's book may not be the final masterpiece of all possible localist argument, but it is a set of very smart reflections on localism and rural life...

The Paradoxes of Localism

By Stone Age Herbalist, Resilience.org

I want my grandchildren to visit other places and countries and see different, unknown foods. I want them to feel like the world isn't one giant airport lounge with sourdough and avocado toast on every menu.